What Ioan-Rareş spoke about.

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RO Written Statement

A European Action Plan Against Rare Diseases (debate)

Currently, 7,000 rare diseases are identified, affecting 30 million people in Europe alone and more than 300 million people worldwide. In Europe, there are still many people who are born, live and die with rare diseases without being diagnosed. 95% of patients do not have access to treatment, do not have sufficient access to health and social care to ensure a better quality of life. Patients with …

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Apr

2026

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EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (joint debate)

Mr. President, your excellencies, let's see where we stand. 450 million citizens are waiting for solutions. The cost of fuel, energy, has become so high that consumption has fallen dramatically. Small businesses are closing, the middle class is barely breathing. Europe is having a hard time. We're looking for solutions to a problem that hasn't started yet. Now it just got worse. The conflicts in t…

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Mar

2026

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EUCO and situation in the Middle East (joint debate)

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Jan

2026

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European Council meeting (joint debate)

Mr President, your excellency, if he does not wake up, the European Union will not survive. What is more precious than family? Oh, my friends! Can anyone quickly say who the true friends of the European Union are today? No, no, no. I was convinced. We're all alone. There is no country without protests against the decisions taken in Brussels. They're ordered by the Russians. That would mean we're s…

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Nov

2025

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Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate)

Mr President, Your Excellency, we are trying to repair the damage done by ignorant politicians, as if the security of 450 million European citizens were a fad. This Parliament stated in 2011 that our dependence on critical materials is putting us at risk. The story started a long time ago, but there was no vision. In 1992, China's leader, Deng Xiaoping, said: ‘The Middle East has oil, China has ra…

13

Nov

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, your excellency, if a first-year student reads the conclusions of the October Council on competitiveness, he is struck by the fact that the heads of state have called for a radical change in the matter, that is, a revolution at the foundation of the functioning of the single market. Then he will wonder what the European Commission was doing while the EPP was calling for simplifica…

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Oct

2025

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23 October 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Europe's economic resilience is also on the agenda of tomorrow's Council. What resilience are we talking about, when the backbone of the Union, farmers, are victims of a Commission that does not seem to understand that the new budget provides ammunition to extremists? Europe is in a psychological war inspired by the art of war. Sun Tzu said this: It is not necessary to physically …

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Oct

2025

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Second World Summit for Social Development (debate)

Mr President, Your Excellencies, in August 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech, one hundred years after Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the end of slavery. We are now living in another form of slavery. We are slaves to ignorance and disengagement, to passivity. The consequence of this intellectual form of laziness is that one in fi…

8

Oct

2025

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United response to recent Russian violations of the EU Member States’ airspace and critical infrastructure (debate)

Madam President, Your Excellencies, the EPP President has best summarized the sleep of the European Union: “Putin needs to test us to react.” In other words, come on! Of course Manfred is not from Transylvania, from there is Avram Iancu, hero of the struggle for the emancipation of the Romanians, who gave the shortest speech of all time: ‘No, ready, no, come on!’. In English: ‘So done, so come on!…

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Sep

2025

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Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interference (debate)

Mr. President, Your Excellencies, the Kremlin is waging a war on both the Ukrainian and Moldovan fronts. In Ukraine, he kidnaps and kills children, destroys cities, in Moldova, he wants to assassinate hope. Disinformation campaigns in Moldova sow hatred against the European Union, frighten citizens and spread lies, all with unprecedented investments. Moldova, with one step in the Eurosystem, is a …

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Jun

2025

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Upcoming NATO summit on 24-26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, Your Excellencies, ideally it would be to put more bread on the table, not to defend with gun in hand and sophisticated systems of defence Our daily bread. But Europe's wise children and elders cannot defend themselves. Anyone who says there is no need to invest in defence is cut off from reality or makes the games of the Kremlin, Iran and those who want an easy prey to Europe. Ch…

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Feb

2025

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Need for targeted support to EU regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (debate)

Madam President, Your Excellencies, people from the regions of the European Union bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine have drawn targets on their chests. This is because the interest of all dictators with expansionist tendencies is to disturb the minds of the citizens in the immediate vicinity. If you do not invest in defense, on the one hand, and combating manipulation, on the other, you find y…

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Feb

2025

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Commission Work Programme 2025 (debate)

Your Excellencies, Madam President, the future of Europe is being decided these days. European citizens call for: Wake up! But our administrative, political and economic Europe does not seem to understand. She looks like a distinguished old lady in a wheelchair. Citizens are radicalising, asking us to adapt, and our Europe - from Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Madrid or Strasbourg, we sleep on our own b…

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Jan

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 December 2024 (debate)

Madam President, the conclusion of each council must be this: Let's not go crazy. Otherwise, we will wonder, with Juliet’s tenderness in Verona’s balcony scene, why farmers block the capital – out of desperation; we open our borders to cheap workers, we import customs at 180 degrees of European civilization, we fill the market with bad non-EU food, we break records of indecency in the name of poli…

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Jan

2025

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Geopolitical and economic implications for the transatlantic relations under the new Trump administration (debate)

Your Excellency, we have entered a new era. Anyone who doesn't understand disappears. Trump has directly announced that he primarily supports the U.S. economy and cares about military spending, and that the issue of migration, climate or gender policies remains his concern. We Europeans have forgotten too much about jobs and farmers' problems in favour of an absurd Green Deal and a politically cor…

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Sep

2024

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Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate)

Madam President, Your Excellencies, I am tired of phrases in which some list threats to the European Union, but in the second I propose smaller budgets for the institutions that defend it. Luckily, there is the European Parliament, which repairs budgets year after year in the fight against organised crime and terrorism. Organised crime networks did not emerge overnight and were not set up by migra…

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Mar

2024

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The time the European Commission takes to deal with requests for public access to documents (debate)

Mr President, Your Excellencies, the debates for and against transparency entitle citizens to ask themselves – what do some have to hide? Why should common sense be regulated? Why do we have this discussion every year at European level? Maybe I am an idealist, but I was a journalist and not a comfortable one, an important and tough one, and when an institution hesitates to say how it established t…

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Feb

2024

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis (debate)

Madam President, domnule președinte, Excelențele Voastre, today, the big day, I will speak my language. Doamnă președintă, am avut privilegiul de a asculta alături de dumneavoastră analiza și viziunea unui adevărat om de stat, Klaus Iohannis, președintele României în ultimii 9 ani, votat de două ori de aproape șapte milioane de români de fiecare dată. Ați ascultat discursul unui om cu vocație euro…

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Dec

2023

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 14-15 December 2023 (debate)

Madam President, Your Excellencies, Romanians are European citizens par excellence and not from today, from yesterday. We are not satisfied with half measures. We want full integration into the Schengen area in 2024. We are not a second-class country, we are not Europe's poor relative. If God did not place us at the mouth of the Danube, at the intersection of imperial interests, next to the Russia…

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Nov

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Nikolay Denkov (debate)

Madam President, your excellency, Prime Minister, I give bad news to Chancellor Nehammer: Austria is no longer an empire. The times have passed when Empress Maria Theresa imposed such high taxes on the Romanian shepherds that she drove them from their Transylvania, over the mountains, to Wallachia. Hungary has billions of euros suspended due to non-compliance with the rule of law, Poland, as well.…

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Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Mr President, the vileness and wickedness of the Hamas criminal group is obvious to any bona fide European. Denying evidence goes from sheer stupidity to complicity in terrorism. It's up to you. It is also faith that compels us to defend Europe with all our strength, and not just because Europe was built on Judeo-Christian values, but because old Europe still has, I hope, enough brains to realize …

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, your excellency, you have lied to us! You have repeatedly lied to us, humiliated us and constantly fooled us, even though we are model European citizens, responsible and open, tolerant and hardworking. We made huge efforts and opened wide the doors for 6 million Ukrainians fleeing Putin's aggression. We are testing our farmers left with thousands of tons of grain in barns or field…

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Apr

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel (debate)

Madam President, Luxembourg is the most Eurooptimistic state in the EU, and Romania is now, after the unjust decision in December on the Schengen enlargement, the most Europessimistic, after being in the top 5 most optimistic pro-European countries for 15 years. No one can anticipate but a state of concern that is growing in Bucharest. The Romanians were horribly hit by the Eurosystem through thei…

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Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the Special European Council meeting of 9 February and preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, your excellences, do not make the drama of Romanian farmers a second Schengen unjustly refused for Romania! The Council of 23-24 March is obliged to decide to pay compensation to farmers who have lost enormously since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Romanian producers have calculated a loss of over 200 million euros, but there are also Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Cze…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

Mr President, your excellences, Romania wants the European Union to become a safer place for its citizens, but Romanians are also European citizens. Romanians make an essential contribution to curbing illegal migration, yet they have been horribly offended. Romanians were denied access to the Schengen area on December 8, and this was due to the political despicability of Austrian Chancellor Nehamm…